Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.
A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.
If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.
Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.
I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people, who feel deeply life's absurdity.
Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.
All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.